Mary Harriet Jellet ( eng. Mary Harriet Jellett / Maine Jellet ; April 20, 1897 - February 16, 1944 ); Irish artist , painter of the first half of the 20th century , pioneer of abstract art in Ireland .
| Maine jellet | |
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| Mainie jellett | |
 Horses Achilles, 1938. Oil on canvas 91.5 × 66 cm. | |
| Birth name | Mary harriet jellet |
| Date of Birth | April 20, 1897 |
| Place of Birth | Dublin , Ireland |
| Date of death | February 16, 1944 (46 years) |
| Place of death | Dublin , Ireland |
| A country | |
| Genre | painter painter |
| Study | Metropolitan School of Art (Eng.) , Dublin Westminster School of Art ( London) |
| Style | cubism abstractionism |
Biography
Mary Harriet Jellet, better known as Maine Jellet, was born in 1897 in Dublin . She was the daughter of English. William Morgan Jellet (1857–1936), unionist, member of the United Kingdom’s Parliament. She first studied at the Metropolitan School of Art (English) , in Dublin , and then at the London Westminster School of Art (English) under Walter Sickert (Walter Sickert, 1860-1942). Finally, together with her companion Ivy Hawn (1894–1955), Meini Gellet went to Paris , where she studied with Andre Lot (1885–1962) and Albert Glez (1881–1953). Her pictorial talent revealed at an early age; when she was still “sick” impressionism . But in Paris, she first saw the work of the Cubists , and this prompted her to undertake her own experiments in the field of non-figurative art . After 1922, she and Ivy Hawn returned to Dublin, but over the next decade, both artists spent part of the year in Paris, in constant contact with Glez .
Already in 1923 , at an important exhibition for Irish art, organized by the Society of Dublin Painters (created in 1920 with the direct participation of post-impressionist painter Paul Henry ), Maine Gellet presented “Decoration” (1923) (board, tempera 89 × 53 cm ) [1] , perhaps the first abstract compositions ever shown to the Irish public [2] .
In 1943, Maine Gellet helped organize the Irish Exhibition of Living Art exhibition with Ivy Hawn , Louis Le Brokie (Eng.) , Jack Hanlon (Eng.) And Nora McGuinness (supported by Jellet).
Mary Harriet Jellet died a year later, at the age of 47.
Literature
- Dalton, Claire. Irish Women Artists 1870-1970 // Summer Loan Exhibition 2014. - Northern Ireland: Nicholson & Bass, 2014. - P. 3, 38-43, 86-89. - 131 p. - ISBN 9781909751187 . [3]
- O'Connell, Daire. Jellet, Mary Harriet (Mainie) // The Encyclopedia of Ireland / Brian Lalor. - Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2002. - 1216 p. - ISBN 0717130002 .
- Barrett, Cyril. Mainie Jellett and Irish Modernism // Irish Arts Review: Yearbook 1993 / Smith, Alistair. - Seven Hills Books, 1993. - P. 167-173. - 272 p. - ISBN 0951372270 . Archived copy from May 25, 2015 on Wayback Machine
- Crookshank, Anne; White, James; Brooke, Peter. Mainie Jellett 1897-1944 . - Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art., 1991. - ISBN 1873654014 .
- Arnold, Bruce. Irish Art, a Concise History . - 2nd Ed .. - London: Thames and Hudson, 1989. - 180 p. - ISBN 050020148X .
- A tribute to Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett / Frost, Stella. - 1st Ed. - Dublin: Browne And Nolan, 1957. - xi, 77 p.
Notes
- ↑ Mainie Jellett. Decoration, 1923 (Inaccessible link) . National Gallery of Ireland. The appeal date is May 25, 2015. Archived May 22, 2015.
- ↑ O'Toole, Fintan Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1923 - Decoration, by Mainie Jellett (April 21, 2015). The appeal date is May 25, 2015.
- ↑ Online PDF-catalog: Dalton, Claire Irish Women Artists 1870-1970 // Summer Loan Exhibition 2014 (2014). The appeal date is May 25, 2015.